Ekow Eshun

Ekow Eshun was born in London, England. His family are Fante from Ghana. His father was a supporter of Kwame Nkrumah and was working at the Ghanaian High Commission in London when Nkrumah was overthrown in a military–police coup in February 1966.

Although three years (1971–74) of Eshun's childhood were spent in Accra, for the most part, he was brought up in Kingsbury, North West London.[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/black-gold-of-the-sun-by-ekow-eshun-752445.html Black Gold of the Sun by Ekow Eshun]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He attended Kingsbury High School in North West London, later reading history and politics at the London School of Economics (LSE).[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/1926609.stm BBC profile.][http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/03/evening-standard-ekow-eshun-profile.html Ekow Eshun profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629193739/http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/03/evening-standard-ekow-eshun-profile.html |date=29 June 2011 }}, Evening Standard. During his time at LSE, he edited both Features and Arts for the student newspaper The Beaver.[https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/list/collections/17 "The Beaver"], LSE Digital Library.

Eshun was the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from 2005 to 2010, during a period of turmoil for the organisation.{{cite news |last1=Edemariam |first1=Aida |author-link=Aida Edemariam|title=Ekow Eshun: 'It's been a tough year …' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/aug/28/ekow-eshun-guardian-interview |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 August 2010}}{{cite news |first= Mark |last=Brown|title= Gregor Muir to be new ICA chief |date =12 January 2010 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jan/11/gregor-muir-ica-chief?INTCMP=SRCH |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 January 2011}} Under his directorship, attendance figures rose by 38 per cent{{Cite news |last=Edemariam |first=Aida |date=2010-08-27 |title=Ekow Eshun and Alan Yentob to quit after ICA survives crisis |language=en-GB |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/aug/27/ica-eshun-ekow-yentob-quit |access-date=2023-05-02 |issn=0261-3077}} from 350,000 to 470,000, and two young artists shown in ICA galleries, Enrico David and Mark Leckey, went on to be nominated for the Turner Prize.

Eshun has appeared as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4 and formerly on BBC Two's The Review Show.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qh6g Saturday Review website.] He appeared in 2009 in the television advertisements for Aviva (formerly Norwich Union). He has also often appeared on More4's topical talk show The Last Word.{{cite web |title=Television and Radio |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/television-and-radio-6625694.html |website=Evening Standard |access-date=1 January 2019 |language=en |date=9 October 2007}} In 2019, he was the captain of the London School of Economics team on Christmas University Challenge.{{cite web |title=Christmas University Challenge alumni line-up announced |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/christmas-university-challenge |publisher=BBC|date=21 December 2018 |access-date=1 January 2019}} In October 2021, he wrote and presented White Mischief, a three-part documentary on BBC Radio 4 on the history of whiteness.{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 - White Mischief|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00106bz|access-date=2021-11-14|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}

Eshun's memoir, Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, published in 2005, deals with a return trip to Ghana, Ghanaian history, and matters of identity and race.{{cite news |title=Looking for myself|first= Gabriel |last=Gbadamosi|author-link= Gabriel Gbadamosi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview20 |work=The Guardian |date=9 July 2005}} (Review of Black Gold of the Sun.) Black Gold of the Sun was nominated for an Orwell Prize in 2006.{{cite web |title=About – Ekow Eshun |url=http://ekoweshun.com/about/}}

He is the younger brother of writer Kodwo Eshun.

Since 2015, Ekow Eshun has worked as an independent curator working internationally on shows which often focus on race and identity.

The Time is Always Now is a show that Eshun curated for the National Portrait Gallery,{{Cite web |title=The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2024/the-time-is-always-now |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.npg.org.uk}} opening in February 2024. It is a major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art. The exhibition showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, highlighting the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, it examines its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The exhibition will be on display at [https://www.theboxplymouth.com/ The Box] in Plymouth from 29 June-29 September 2024 before touring to the USA.

Eshun curated In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery in London in July 2022,{{Cite news |last=Jansen |first=Charlotte |date=2022-08-04 |title=Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |issn=0362-4331}} a landmark exhibition of visionary Black artists exploring myth, science fiction and Afrofuturism. The show was critically acclaimed, being called "Spectacular from first to last" by The Observer.{{Cite news |last=Cumming |first=Laura |date=2022-07-03 |title=In the Black Fantastic review – spectacular from first to last |language=en-GB |newspaper=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/03/in-the-black-fantastic-review-hayward-gallery-london-spectacular-from-first-to-last |access-date=2023-05-02 |issn=0029-7712}} The Evening Standard said: "There is unlikely to be a better show this year."{{Cite news |last=Luke |first=Ben |date=2022-06-28 |title=In the Black Fantastic review: Unlikely be a better show this year |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/in-the-black-fantastic-review-nick-cave-ekow-eshun-b1008769.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |newspaper=Evening Standard |language=en}} The show also toured to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.

To accompany his book and exhibition, In the Black Fantastic, Eshun curated a season of visionary films exploring Black existence through sci-fi, myth and Afrofuturism at the British Film Institute.{{Cite web |title=In the Black Fantastic: a conversation with Ekow Eshun |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/black-fantastic-conversation-with-ekow-eshun |first=Chrystel |last=Oloukoï|date=5 July 2022|access-date=2023-05-02 |website=BFI |language=en}}

We Are History, was a group exhibition at Somerset House in London {{Cite web |date=2021-08-03 |title=We Are History |url=https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/we-are-history |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Somerset House |language=en}} offering a different perspective on humanity's impact on the planet by tracing the complex interrelations between today's climate crisis and legacies of colonialism. The exhibition, curated by Eshun, won Time Out London{{'}}s Sustainable Event of the Year prize in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Revealed: Time Out London's 2021 Best of the City award winners |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/revealed-time-out-londons-2021-best-of-the-city-award-winners |first=Kate |last=Lloyd|date=6 December 2021|access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Time Out London |language=en-GB}}

Africa State of Mind was an internationally acclaimed survey show heralding a new era in African photography. Africa State of Mind gathered together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across Africa, including both the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. It is both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and an exploration of how contemporary photographers from the continent are exploring ideas of "Africanness" to reveal Africa to be a psychological space as much as a physical territory – a state of mind as much as a geographical place. It first opened at New Art Exchange in Nottingham,{{Cite web |title=Africa State of Mind |url=https://www.nae.org.uk/event/africa-state-of-mind/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=New Art Exchange {{!}} NAE |language=en-US}} before touring to MOAD San Francisco, 2020,{{Cite web |title=Virtual Tour {{!}} Africa State of Mind--Part 1 {{!}} MoAD |url=https://www.moadsf.org/event/virtual-tour-africa-state-of-mind-part-1 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.moadsf.org}} and Rencontres des Arles, 2021.{{Cite web |last=d'Arles |first=Les Rencontres |title=AFRICA STATE OF MIND |url=http://www.rencontres-arles.com//en/expositions/view/982/africa-state-of-mind |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.rencontres-arles.com}} Africa State of Mind was also the name of a book of African photography{{Cite web |title=Africa State of Mind |url=https://thamesandhudson.com/africa-state-of-mind-contemporary-photography-reimagines-a-continent-9780500545164 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=thamesandhudson.com |language=en}} that Ekow Eshun published with Thames and Hudson.

Made You Look{{Cite web |title=Made You Look: Dandyism and Black Masculinity {{!}} The Photographers Gallery, Thu 14 Jul 2016 - Sat 24 Sep 2016 |url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/made-you-look-dandyism-and-black-masculinity |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=thephotographersgallery.org.uk |language=en}} at The Photographers' Gallery in London was a group show on photography, style and Black dandyism. Describing this exhibition in Wallpaper magazine, Eshun said: "It is about confounding expectations about how black men should look or carry themselves in order to establish a place of personal freedom; a place beyond the white gaze, where the black body is a site of liberation not oppression."{{Cite web |last=updated |first=Jessica Klingelfuss last |date=2016-08-15 |title=Dandyism, race and masculinity collide at The Photographers' Gallery |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/dandyism-and-masculinity-exhibition-opens-at-the-photographers-gallery |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=wallpaper.com |language=en}}

Eshun's memoir, Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, published in 2005, deals with a return trip to Ghana, Ghanaian history, and matters of identity and race. Reviewing the book for the New Statesman, Margaret Busby said: "His rich memoir, which comes fittingly adorned with a golden jacket designed by Chris Ofili, attempts to answer the question: 'Where are you from?' Eshun's search for home and identity is sometimes achingly poignant, a story of semi-detachment, of fragmentation and duality, which must have been cathartic to write. 'There is no singularity to truth' is its refrain."Busby, Margaret (30 May 2005), [https://www.newstatesman.com/node/162178 "Homing instinct"], New Statesman. Black Gold of the Sun was nominated for an Orwell Prize in 2006.

British publishing house Hamish Hamilton has acquired the rights to Eshun’s new book The Stranger, {{Cite web |title=Ekow Eshun, Author of Africa State of Mind, Has a New Book Coming Out |url=https://brittlepaper.com/2021/03/ekow-eshun-author-of-africa-state-of-mind-has-a-new-book-coming-out/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=brittlepaper.com}} described as a “‘powerfully intimate, richly imagined’ investigation into Black masculinity.” The Stranger is “structured around the stories of several remarkable Black men, from the 19th to 21st century and across the global diaspora” and “will set out a ‘radical’ exploration of Black male identity and experience. From Victorian actor Ira Aldridge to philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon to infamous rapper Tupac Shakur, each chapter will find its subject “standing at a crossroads, his life and the society around him in flux”. The book will be published in hardback, e-book and audio in 2024.

In the Black Fantastic is a richly visual book that assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience – and beyond – looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century.The book includes an introductory text by Eshun, and extended essays by Eshun, Kameelah L. Martin and Michelle D. Commander.

Africa State of Mind is a mesmerizing,{{Cite web |title=Africa State of Mind - Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent by Ekow Eshun |url=https://www.impressions-gallery.com/shop/pre-order-africa-state-of-mind-contemporary-photography-reimagines-a-continent-by-ekow-eshun// |access-date=2 July 2025 |website=Impressions |language=en}} continent-spanning survey of the most dynamic scenes in contemporary African photography, and an introduction to the creative figures who are making it happen. Dispensing with the western colonial view of Africa in purely geographic or topographic terms, Eshun presents Africa State of Mind in four thematic parts: Hybrid Cities; Inner Landscapes; Zones of Freedom; and Myth and Memory.

Eshun has contributed many essays to major art publications. He wrote an essay for Seeing by Duro Olowu.{{Cite web |title=Duro Olowu: Seeing |url=https://delmonicobooks.com/book/duro-olowu-seeing/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=DelMonico Books |language=en-US}} Eshun focuses on Olowu's role within Britain’s black and Afro-Caribbean creative community. He is also a contributor to Fashioning masculinities : the art of menswear.{{Cite web |title=Fashioning masculinities : the art of menswear / edited by Rosalind McKever & Claire Wilcox; with Marta Franceschini; [contributors, Christopher Breward, Gus Casely-Hayford [and 20 others]]. |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j5vdjt57 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Wellcome Collection |language=en}} which accompanied a major exhibition at The V&A.

Eshun is an influential writer delivering timely, insightful analysis of complex issues of culture, art and identity. He writes for publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian, and has been a Contributing Editor at Wallpaper. For example, he wrote about Basquiat for The New York Times in 2017.{{Cite news |last=Eshun |first=Ekow |date=2017-09-22 |title=Bowie, Bach and Bebop: How Music Powered Basquiat |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/arts/design/basquiat-barbican-london.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |issn=0362-4331}}

From his early days as the Assistant Editor of iconic style magazine The Face, and then editor of Arena men's magazine, Eshun has written influential thought pieces exploring style, masculinity, race and the changing face of modern Britain, and has interviewed iconic figures from Prince and Bjork to Neneh Cherry and Hilary Mantel. In early autumn 1996, Eshun interviewed Prince at his Paisley Park complex outside Minneapolis.{{Cite magazine |title=Purple Pain: revisit an interview with Prince at Paisley Park |url=https://theface.com/archive/prince-the-face-archive-emmancipation-paisley-park |issue=2|date= March 1997|volume=3|access-date=2023-05-02 |magazine=The Face |language=en-gb}}

Presented by Eshun, the film Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (BBC4, 2022){{Cite web |title=Dark Matter - A History of the Afrofuture (BBC) | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFTTJIbUpSY |access-date=2023-05-17 |language=en}} is an exploration – from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Grace Jones – of how black artists use the sci-fi genre to examine black history and imagine new, alternative futures.

In White Mischief, a three-part radio series for BBC Radio 4, Eshun traces where whiteness came from and how its power has remained elusive.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010ndy "White Mischief"], BBC Radio 4, 2021.

• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00106by Episode 1: The background hum]
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010ggm Episode 2: Kind of nightmarish]
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010ndy Episode 3: Dream for a moment]

In this four-part mini-series, Eshun examines the rich and boundless ways in which artists have engaged with the concept of the "Black Atlantic.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrRbLJBDkSg "What is the Black Atlantic? – The Black Atlantic: Episode 1 | Tate"], 2022.

Books

• [https://thamesandhudson.com/in-the-black-fantastic-9780500024621 In the Black Fantastic],{{Cite web |title=In the Black Fantastic |url=https://thamesandhudson.com/in-the-black-fantastic-9780500024621 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=thamesandhudson.com |language=en}} Thames and Hudson, 2022.
• [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Africa-State-Mind-Contemporary-Photography/dp/0500545162 Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent], Thames and Hudson, 2020.
• [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54468/black-gold-of-the-sun-by-ekow-eshun/9780141010960 Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for home in England and Africa],{{Cite book |last=Eshun |first=Ekow |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54468/black-gold-of-the-sun-by-ekow-eshun/9780141010960 |title=Black Gold of the Sun |date=2006-06-29 |language=en}} Hamish Hamilton, 2005.

Selected essays

• {{"'}}I Suck at Love': Nas, Jay-Z and Black Male Vulnerability", in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Culture-Hip-Contemporary-21st-Century/dp/1941366546 The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century],{{Cite book |title=The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century |date=2023-08-08 |publisher=Gregory Miller & Company |isbn=978-1-941366-54-7 |editor-last=Naeem |editor-first=Asma |language=English}} Asma Naeem, 2023.
• The New African Portraiture, in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-African-Portraiture-Shariat-Collections/dp/3753303062 The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections],{{Cite book |last1=Green |first1=Myrah Brown |title=The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections |last2=Buchhart |first2=Dieter |last3=Coglan |first3=Niam |last4=Dakouo |first4=Armelle |last5=Dempster |first5=Heike |last6=Eshun |first6=Ekow |last7=Felice |first7=Claire di |last8=Godin |first8=Philippe |last9=Gomado |first9=Selasie |date=2023-01-26 |publisher=Walther & Franz König |isbn=978-3-7533-0306-2 |editor-last=Steininger |editor-first=Florian |edition=1st |location=Köln |language=English}} Walther & Franz König, 2023.
• "The Hybrid of it all: The Making of Black British Style", in  [https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/exhibition-ranges/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear/fashioning-masculinities---official-exhibition-book-hardback-163185.html Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, V&A],{{Cite web |title=Fashioning Masculinities: Official Exhibition Book {{!}} Hardback Book {{!}} V&A Shop |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/exhibition-ranges/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear/fashioning-masculinities---official-exhibition-book-hardback-163185.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.vam.ac.uk}} 2022.
• A Conversation between Campbell Addy and Ekow Eshun, in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feeling-Seen-Photographs-Campbell-Addy/dp/3791388460 Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy],{{Cite book |last=Addy |first=Campbell |title=Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy |date=2022-04-14 |publisher=Prestel |isbn=978-3-7913-8846-5 |edition=1st |language=English}} Prestel, 2022.
• "Why do we March? Joy Gerrard’s Exhilarating Bodies in Motion", in [https://cristearoberts.com/artists/131-joy-gerrard/ Joy Gerrard: Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers, Highlanes Gallery],{{Cite web |title=Joy Gerrard |url=https://cristearoberts.com/artists/131-joy-gerrard/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Cristea Roberts Gallery |language=en}} 2022.
• "Acts of Rememory", in  [https://loja.serralves.pt/gb/catalog/publications/serralves/68650-mark-bradford-agora.html Mark Bradford: Agora],{{Cite web |title=Mark Bradford: Ágora PT |url=https://loja.serralves.pt/gb/catalog/publications/serralves/68650-mark-bradford-agora.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Loja de Serralves |language=en-GB}} Serralves, 2021
• "Portmanteau Biota", in  [https://www.thomasdanegallery.com/publications/218/ Hurvin Anderson: Reverb],{{Cite web |title=Publications |url=http://thomasdane-web-eu-thomasdane.artlogic.net/publications/218/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Thomas Dane Gallery}} Thomas Dane, 2021.
• "Masterless People: The Free Republic of Raphaël Barontini", in [https://marianeibrahim.com/publications/11/ Raphaël Barontini, Marianne Ibrahim Publications],{{Cite web |title=Publication: Raphaël Barontini - Mariane Ibrahim Publications |url=https://marianeibrahim.com/publications/11/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Mariane Ibrahim Gallery |language=en}} 2021
• "Black is Ours", in [https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/44-amoako-boafo/publications/ Amoako Boafo, Marianne Ibrahim Publications],{{Cite web |title=Amoako Boafo - Publications |url=https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/44-amoako-boafo/publications/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Mariane Ibrahim Gallery |language=en}} 2021.
• "Duro Oluwo and the Becoming of Black Britain", in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duro-Olowu-Seeing-Naomi-Beckwith/dp/3791359487 Duro Olowu: Seeing],{{Cite book |last=Beckwith |first=Naomi |title=Duro Olowu: Seeing |date=2020-05-27 |publisher=Prestel |isbn=978-3-7913-5948-9 |edition=1st |location=München London New York |language=English}} Prestel, 2020.
• *Ways of Seeing: African Portraiture Looks Back at the Imperial Eye",{{Cite book |last=Pardo |first=Alona |title=Masculinities: Photography and Film from the 1960s to Now: Liberation through Photography |date=2020-03-20 |publisher=Prestel |isbn=978-3-7913-5951-9 |edition=1st |location=Munich London New York |language=English}} in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Masculinities-Photography-1960s-Liberation-through/dp/3791359517 Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Prestel], 2020.
• "Every Moment Counts",{{Cite book |last1=Eshun |first1=Ekow |title=Linda McCartney. The Polaroid Diaries: MCCARTNEY, LINDA, POLAROIDS |last2=McCartney |first2=Linda |date=2019-10-09 |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8365-5811-2 |editor-last=Golden |editor-first=Reuel |edition=Multilingual |location=Köln Paris |language=}} in  [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linda-McCartney-Polaroids-Collectif/dp/3836558114 Linda McCartney. The Polaroid Diaries, Taschen],  2019.
• "To make figures and subjects walk into a frame": John Akomfrah in conversation with Ekow Eshun,{{Cite book |last1=Akomfrah |first1=John |title=John Akomfrah: Purple (Curve): 6 |last2=Eshun |first2=Ekow |date=2017-10-01 |publisher=Barbican Art Gallery |isbn=978-0-9957082-2-8 |editor-last=Banning |editor-first=Kass |location=London |language=English}} in  [https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Akomfrah-Purple-Ekow-Eshun/dp/0995708223/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1683385222&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Akomfrah&s=books&sr=1-3 John Akomfrah: Purple, Barbican, 2017]
• "Like Tulips in the Sun: Colonisation and Creolisation in the World Stage":{{Cite book |url=https://www.waterstones.com/book/kehinde-wiley-the-world-stage-jamaica/kehinde-wiley/ekow-eshun/9780957567481 |title=Kehinde Wiley - the World Stage Jamaica (Hardback) |via=Waterstones}} Jamaica, in [https://www.waterstones.com/book/kehinde-wiley-the-world-stage-jamaica/kehinde-wiley/ekow-eshun/9780957567481 Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Jamaica, Stephen Friedman, 2013]
• Ekow Eshun Interviews Chris Ofili,{{Cite web |title=Chris Ofili (hardback) {{!}} Books {{!}} Tate Shop {{!}} Tate |url=https://shop.tate.org.uk/chris-ofili-hardback/9328.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=shop.tate.org.uk}} in  [https://shop.tate.org.uk/chris-ofili-hardback/9328.html Chris Ofili, Tate, 2010]

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060407201926/http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/archives/TRA32287.html Full transcript of a talk given by Ekow Eshun about his book Black Gold of the Sun]
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